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It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after…

— Julie Smith

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at…

— Carol Vorderman

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I…

— Ann Hood

The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than…

— Sloane Crosley

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did…

— Anonymous

“It's a scary thing, moving on. Part of me wishes life were more predictable and part of me is excited that it's not. I…

— Chris Crutcher

'Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with…

— Barbie Ferreira

“It was not the time to recall all those really horrifying nursery stories she'd read, Bluebeard, Babes in the Wood, Little Red Riding Hood.…

— Karen Ranney

“Awful to think she was a disapproving mother. Awful to wonder-had she always frightened Amy? Is that why the girl had grown up so…

— Elizabeth Strout

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

— Mary Gaitskill

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

— Kingsley Amis

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

— Charles Baudelaire